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By a degree of a module M we mean a numerical measure of information carried by M. It must serve the purposes of allowing comparisons between modules and to exhibit flexible calculus rules that track the degree under some basic constructions in module theory.
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Vasconcelos, W.V. (1998). Cohomological Degrees of Graded Modules. In: Elias, J., Giral, J.M., Miró-Roig, R.M., Zarzuela, S. (eds) Six Lectures on Commutative Algebra. Progress in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0329-4_6
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